Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Last week, when I wrote my post on how to boost employment, the list started off unambiguously: The first—and ...

Senate Republicans and a lone Democratic Senator have blocked a bill that would have extended long-term jobless aid for the nation’s unemployed. According to the National Employment Law Project, 1.2 ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced Tuesday that the chamber is “very, very close” to working out a bipartisan deal that would extend unemployment benefits for five months. The ...

With more than 1 million of the nation’s long-term jobless facing a cutoff of federal unemployment benefits on Saturday, a bipartisan pair of senators have called for an early January vote on a ...

Extending unemployment benefits for another 14 weeks crossed a procedural hurdle in the Senate today. Sixty senators — including six Republicans — agreed a $6.4 billion plan will have a vote in ...

Hoosiers who previously have exhausted their unemployment benefits and remain unemployed may file online for the new federal unemployment extension beginning Monday. The federal government on Nov. 6 ...

On Tuesday, the Senate failed to muster up the votes to pass an extension of unemployment insurance. Some 1.3 million workers lost their jobless benefits on Dec. 28 when an emergency program to help ...

Michigan residents could see their unemployment benefits grow under bills that passed the state Senate Thursday. The legislation would extend the amount of time someone can claim unemployment benefits ...